The Rt Rev. Anthony Charles Foottit (known as Tony) was Bishop of Lynn

Bishop of Lynn

The Bishop of Lynn is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town of King's Lynn in Norfolk...

  from 1999 to 2003. He was born on 28 June 1935 and educated at Lancing College

Lancing College

Lancing College is a co-educational English independent school in the British public school tradition, founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard. Woodard's aim was to provide education "based on sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the Christian faith." Lancing was the first of a...

  and King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge

King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....

. Ordained in 1961, his career began with a curacy

Curate

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 at Wymondham

Wymondham

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, after which he was Vicar

Vicar

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 of Blakeney

Blakeney, Norfolk

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, Rural Dean

Rural Dean

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 of Cary

Castle Cary

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 and finally (before his elevation to the Episcopate) Archdeacon of Lynn. A keen botanist, Bishop Tony is married with three children.